It is the kind of place that rewards knowing about in advance, because without that knowledge there is simply nothing to see.

The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1837 marked the site clearly as a fort, depicting an oval enclosure on a gently south-facing slope. What it recorded was almost certainly a rath, the term used for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built in early medieval Ireland, typically defined by one or more circular or oval banks of earth with an accompanying fosse, or external ditch. By 1976, when the site was formally examined, the rath measured roughly 47 metres on its northwest to southeast axis and 36 metres across the northeast to southwest, enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with fragmentary traces of that outer fosse still visible. Even then, the structure had been considerably compromised. The bank and fosse along the western, northern, and northeastern sides had been absorbed into a field boundary, a very common fate for these monuments across the Irish countryside, where their earthworks were convenient ready-made boundaries for later agricultural enclosure. The original entrance was thought to have faced east. At some point after 1976, the rath was levelled entirely, leaving only that slight, irregular swelling in the turf to mark where it stood.